Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
